"They wanted it to happen."Speech
To Manchester Support Group 1/7/04

I
stand before you today less as a candidate and more as a
messenger and the message I bear is simple and stark. We
have all been lied to about 9/11, the country is in mortal
danger and only you can make it right.

If you need a
label, I stand here as a 9/11 Truth Candidate and some may
thus dismiss me as a single-issue candidate and in a narrow
sense that is true. But if you consider that 9/11 has led us
into fiscal ruin, endless war and constitutional twilight,
my issue is the mother issue of our age.

That said let me
return to the 9/11 message the first line of which is
this:

They wanted it to happen.

They being the neocon
members and associates of PNAC, the Project for a New
American Century, an ultra-rightwing think tank and
mouthpiece for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and most Bush's
handlers these days. Cheney, Wolfowitz and their PNAC
fellows had been campaigning publicly for Mideast oil wars
since 2000, but also said publicly that the American people
were not likely to buy these plans without a quote
catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor"
unquote

They wanted it to happen.

And despite over 23
warnings from 11 foreign governments in the months preceding
the attacks they did NOTHING to protect or warn the
country.

They did less than nothing. They quashed 5
different investigations into Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda by FBI
teams, and then promoted the FBI official who did most of
that quashing after 9/11.

They wanted it to happen.

And
the day it finally did they let it run its course. There was
a mysterious total collapse of all our air defenses. Even
though planes had been routinely scrambled 67 times for far
lesser threats in the preceding year, on 9/11 all standard
operating procedures inexplicably broke down. With 4
hijacked planes in the air and Flight 77 taking more than an
hour to reach the Pentagon, not a single plane was there to
intercept its deadly course.

Think about that for a long
moment. A trillion dollar defense establishment, over three
months of top level warnings, an hour's lead time, fighters
based ten minutes away, and they could not even protect
their own goddamn headquarters.

So 9/11 happened.

3000
people were instantly killed. The economy was desperately
wounded, the country paralyzed with fear.

. The FBI got a big cash bonus too
plus a secret police wet dream in the form of the Patriot
Act.

(And when a couple senators -- Daschle and Leahy
say, "Slow down, this act's not exactly patriotic or even
constitutional" - guess who gets anthrax in the mail?)

.
Arms merchants like Daddy Bush's Carlyle Group reaped
billions, no, tens of billions, from new "War on Terrorism"
orders.

. Washington insider firms like Cheney's
Halliburton, and GOP cash cow Bechtel harvested hundreds of
billions in no-bid contracts as we methodically blow up and
renovate both Afghanistan and Iraq.

So 9/11 happened and
the administration ordered, "thou shalt not investigate! It
will distract us from the fight against terror and all the
war we have to make."

White House refusal may seem
natural, but where was our crusading press. It is another
simple sad fact that the journalists who should have been
investigating this whole peculiar business were now owned
and operated by big media corporations who were making so
damn much selling these wars that they held their peace
instead. They not only did not question the scores of 9/11
lies and contradictions, they never even told the public
there were still unanswered questions there at all.

So
9/11 happened, flags were waved, money flowed and the press
shut up.

And there it all would have ended - PNAC with
its oil wars, Bush with new poll Viagra, the FBI free from
the Bill of Rights, the merchants of war rolling in blank
checks and the media fat with cash. A happing ending,
no?

Not for the victim families, and if it weren't for a
few hundred courageous ones I wouldn't be standing in front
of you today.

The government tried to buy their silence
too, and offered all 3,000 families fat payments from a
Victims Compensation Fund. Each would get about a million
bucks if they just promised to shut, stop asking the logical
questions and simply go away.

Most did, it is true. But
some who were paying attention fought back and demanded a
real investigation. They got the National 9/11 Commission
instead.

Can you imagine a 9/11 investigative commission
where most of the commissioners have ties to the oil,
airline and arms industries if not to the White House
itself?

Where the witnesses are not even asked to testify
under oath?

Where interrogations of FBI, FAA and NORAD
insiders are all supervised by White House chaperones called
"minders" ?

Where the executive director worked for years
with Condi Rice, head of the National Security Council who
herself refuses to testify under oath?

Where the latest
appointed commissioner is an Iraq war hawk who publicly said
he thought the most important role of the commission was
quote "not to embarrass the president" unquote?

Could you
believe in an investigation like that? Can you believe the
shit that is going down?

Well, neither can I and that is
why I am here today to ask you to join with the desperate
victim families and demand belated truth.

The country has
been swindled into endless war, repression and financial
collapse. Thousands of people have been murdered and we
still don't know the facts.

I am just one voice saying
these things up here in New Hampshire today, but if you
would just do some homework you would see there are
thousands like me working in shadow on the internet trying
get out what the victim families want to say.

One great
crusader in this struggle is your own Ellen Mariani, a Derry
9/11 widow who is suing Bush, Cheney and their neocon kin
for knowingly letting her husband die for personal and
political gain.

I beg you to rally around her as one of
the heroes of this cause, I also beg you to read some vital
texts like Nafeez Ahmed's "The War on Freedom" or the 9/11
timeline at cooperativeresearch.org And finally I ask you
to vote for me to send a message of your own -- that this
land is our land and it's time for gestapo-minded war
profiteers to get hell out.

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